The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1887-03-29

swim. One would think by the accounts
which reach these coral strands from Canada
that the old man had struck gold mine,
and was piling up the shekels sky high Well
l just talked to Nosbi9 about 1t, and told him
to go SLOW you know, and not to bring the
sacred Orders of the Frigate Bird or the Sea
Serpent into disrepute by comforting them
on Tom, Dick and Harry, and making a
laughing stock of Us all" Rlif. says Nos
big promised to look into the matter, and
induce the Grand Duke to draw the line so
as to exclude saloon keepers and dock
rat" and those who are not good looking
Nosbig says the revenue from the sale of
these baubles is immeDse-lots of folks here
want them and are willing to put up from
$50 to $500 for these affairs-and to cut this
branch off would paralyze the Royal exche-
quer, which in these dull times might ruin
the national credit.
You know Lot ?-of course you do. Real
clever chap, you know. Well, Lot gave Bliff.
and an invitation TO 90 down to the bath
house with him. and see him move the
previous question. ~ Saturday evening, the
and with the cops started for the fun.
On reaching the scene of action, things were
booming IN the bath-house, and a first-class
hula was III full blast. Lot Just placed his
boys where they would do the most good"
and then quietly We entered. We all took
peep before going in. Why, Bliff. and l Just
wilted when we saw the boys" inside
nearly all the goody-goody" fellows, who
never go to such places, you know, OH no !.
There was one tall chap dancing the "tra-
la-loo," and doing ii up IN good shape, while
nearly I'll present were terrifying their
stomacns with "little suthin," to nerve
them for the fun /. ,.ol-. Just then Lots
well-known YlSaSe appeared IN their midst,
aud for a moment you'd have Thought light
l,.,,l Oh T..
for a moment then the rafting of boots
commenced, and everyone played lone
hand, and played it we'll, too. In less than
minute the room was. empty, and all was
quiet. The tall chap was the first to sniff
the danger, and with a yell, which sounded
like Haw, dammew went flying out of the
door into the briny deep, and has not since
been seen. Another disappeared through the
window, and was soon miles away. The
" goody-goody" chaps, after getting their
second wind" Just took to the water and
hoated off like corks, or quietly waded
through the mud, singing "Pull for the
Shore" An ancient-looking chap, who would
adorn a page of history to advantage, re-
manned, and Lot closed with him. Oh, you
ought to have seen the dust fy-this was the
best fun of the lot. A regular cotillon fol-
lowed, in which Lot led off the old chaps
feet were too large, and he couldn't waltz
with Lot, who was getting the bulge on him.
Pretty soon the old chap got a slant
for the door, and just "whooped her up
for one grand strike for liberty, and tried to
slide through, but it was no go, one of his
huge feet struck the door post, Just wreck
ing it, while Lot, laying off his white plug
hat and long tailed coat, with herculean
effort seized the other foot, and then,Bliff
and l dropped from our good place and
helped Lot. Oh, didn't that old mule kick
talk about the ''can-can," why it wasn't
circumstance to this old ROSTERS lofty kick
ing. After taking a good look at him, and
noting his and other names down ON the
first page of his little book, Lot allowed him
to slide, and he went flying across lots
through the mud. A Colonial dude was also
trapped with the other good little bows"
who said, ''It's blawsted awkward, YOU
knaw. Only came out for blooming bit of
fun, you knsw, and to get run in. Oh, blarst
me HES, it's blooming gol'' While Lot and
the "cops" were confseating the ''small
stores and Blif. and l were watching them,
the "blarsted" dude suddenly remembered an
engagement he had, and quietly slid through
the window. Now we had the ''shebang'' to
our own cheek, with oceans of stuff, and
Bliff., being little excited from watching
the stores, became slightly hilarious, and so
did the other boys, and we had one of the
gayest little picuicS we could wish for.
Pretty soon out went the electric light, and
we were in the dark-Lot had gone and left
only little damp, u0unIng IL 5ii SIX Oh. no;
Home again, all right. We made big Hall
tRat nlSht-no gun. ELANEUR.